Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations
Section VI. Time
2. Time with reference to a particular Period
126. Evening. [Midnight.]
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| NOUN: | EVENING, eve; decline of day, fall of day, close of day; candlelight, candle-lighting; eventide, evensong [eccl. or archaic], vespers [eccl.], nighttide [archaic], nightfall, curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the sun, cockshut [obs.], dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
AFTERNOON, post meridiem [L.], p.m.
MIDNIGHT; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night, killing-time.
AUTUMN; fall, fall of the leaf; harvest, autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St. Luke’s summer, St. Martin’s summer.
WINTER, hiems [L.].
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| ADJECTIVE: | VESPER, vespertine, nocturnal; autumnal.
WINTRY, winterly, brumous, brumal.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Midnight, the outpost of advancing day.—Longfellow
- Sable-vested Night.—Milton
- This gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay’d.—Young
- The gradual dusky veil.—Collins
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